connecting with Spy Boy

In multi-player mode, at "connect via", GPL doesn't recognise my cable modem ; It only offers serial com 1 and 2 has choices. How can I configure properly in order to join online races ? Many thanks in advance.

You'll need to add the following line to the Communications section of your core.ini file in GPL: alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 If you don't already have a core.ini file in your c:\sierra\gpl directory, create a text file in there, name it core.ini and put the following lines in it: [ Communications ] alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 net_mdm_client_send_every = 3 net_mdm_client_send_size = 84 net_mdm_server_send_every = 3 net_mdm_server_send_size = 84 Good luck, Trips D. Bell on VROC > In multi-player mode, at "connect via", GPL doesn't recognise my cable modem > ; It only offers serial com 1 and 2 has choices. How can I configure > properly in order to join online races ? > Many thanks in advance.

Not sure if this is required, but for my cable modem connection, I also have the following lines in core.ini: net_lan_client_send_every = 3 ; Client packet freq on LAN net_lan_client_send_size = 84 ; Client packet size on LAN net_lan_server_send_every = 3 ; Server packet freq on LAN net_lan_server_send_size = 84 ; Server packet size on LAN I thought I had read somewhere that the above parameters are used for cable modems. Does anyone know for sure? Brian

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> You'll need to add the following line to the Communications section of > your core.ini file in GPL: > alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 > If you don't already have a core.ini file in your c:\sierra\gpl > directory, create a text file in there, name it core.ini and put the > following lines in it: > [ Communications ] > alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 > net_mdm_client_send_every = 3 > net_mdm_client_send_size = 84 > net_mdm_server_send_every = 3 > net_mdm_server_send_size = 84 > Good luck, > Trips > D. Bell on VROC > > In multi-player mode, at "connect via", GPL doesn't recognise my cable

modem > > ; It only offers serial com 1 and 2 has choices. How can I configure > > properly in order to join online races ? > > Many thanks in advance.

Thanks to all who helped; it worked the first time.

This isn't necessary. By default, we use the "net_mdm_*_send_*" settings for TCP/IP, regardless of the type of connection. You can override this if you want, but would generally only do so if you are running exclusively on a LAN, and IPX is not available to you on the LAN. If this is your situation, you can add this setting to core.ini... [ Communications ] net_use_mdm_bandwidth_for_tcp_ip = 0 (the default value for the setting is 1). Do NOT override this setting unless you really need it. If you do, you won't able to host or join Internet races. Randy